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    		• Bok, Bart Jan, 1906-
     
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    		• Astronomical observatories -- Administration.
     
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    		• Cosmology.
     
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    		• Galaxies.
     
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    		• Nebulae.
     
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    		• Radio astronomy.
     
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    		• Stars.
     
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    		• World War, 1939-1945.
     
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    		• McCarthyism.
     
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    		• Science -- Popularization.
     
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    		• American Astronomical Society.
     
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    		• Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy.
     
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    		• Associated Universities, Inc.
     
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    		• Boyden Observatory.
     
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    		• Case Institute of Technology.
     
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    		• Harvard College Observatory
     
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    		• Harvard University.
     
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    		• Indiana University.
     
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    		• Kitt Peak National Observatory.
     
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    		• Mount Stromlo Observatory.
     
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    		• Palomar Observatory.
     
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    		• National Radio Astronomy Observatory (U.S.)
     
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    		• National Science Foundation (U.S.)
     
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    		• Ohio State University.
     
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    		• Princeton University.
     
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    		• Steward Observatory.
     
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    		• Rijksuniversiteit te Gröningen.
     
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    		• University of Arizona.
     
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    		• University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
     
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    		• University of Michigan.
     
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    		• University of Texas at Austin.
     
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    		• Astronomy -- Study and teaching.
     
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    		• Tonantzintla Observatory.
     
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    		• Baade, Walter, 1893-1960.
     
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    		• Bundy, McGeorge.
     
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    		• Campbell, William Wallace, 1862-
     
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    		• Conant, James Bryant, 1893-1978.
     
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    		• Eddington, Arthur Stanley, Sir, 1882-1944.
     
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    		• Ehrenfest, Paul, 1880-1933.
     
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    		• Goudsmit, Samuel Abraham, 1902-
     
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    		• Greenstein, Jesse L. (Jesse Leonard), 1909-
     
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    		• Jeans, James Hopwood, Sir, 1877-1946.
     
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    		• Kapteyn, J. C. (Jacobus Cornelius), 1851-1922.
     
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    		• Kuiper, Gerard Peter, 1905-
     
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    		• Mayall, N. U. (Nicholas Ulrich), 1906-
     
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    		• McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957.
     
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    		• Menzel, Donald Howard, 1901-
     
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    		• Milne, Edward Arthur, 1896-1950.
     
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    		• Oort, Jan Hendrik.
     
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    		• Pickering, Edward C. (Edward Charles), 1846-1919.
     
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    		• Schwarzschild, Martin.
     
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    		• Shapley, Harlow, 1885-1972.
     
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    		• Struve, Otto, 1897-1963.
     
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    		• Uhlenbeck, George Eugène, 1900-1988-
     
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    		• Bok, Priscilla Fairfield.
     
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    		• Carpenter, Edwin F.
     
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    		• Cherry, Tom.
     
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    		• Gaposchkin, Sergei. 1898-
     
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    		• Heeschen, David S.
     
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    		• Hertzsprung, Ejnar, 1873-1967.
     
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    		• King, Ivan Robert.
     
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    		• Lindblad, Bertil.
     
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    		• Maury, Antonia Caetana De Paiva Pereira, 1866-1952.
     
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    		• McCuskey, Sidney Wilcox.
     
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    		• Meinel, Aden.
     
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    		• Menzies, Robert.
     
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    		• Miller, James E.
     
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    		• Morgan, W. W. (William Wilson), 1906-
     
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    		• Pannekoek, Antoine.
     
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    		• Plaskett, Harry Hemley, 1893-
     
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    		• Putnam, Michael Lowell.
     
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    		• Sitter, Willem de.
     
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    		• Rhijn, P. J. van. (Pieter Johannes), b. 1886
     
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    		• Oral histories.
     
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    		• Interviews.
     
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    		• Sound recordings.
     
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    		• Transcripts.
     
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    Oral history interview with Bart Jan Bok, 1978 May 15, 17, 19 and 1978 June 14.
    by Bok, Bart Jan, 1906-
    Description: 
    Transcript: 167 pages.
    Audio recording: 10 cassettes, 9 hours.
    Use and Reproduction : 
    Oral History Interview may be read and quoted by any researcher with an access application on file, and excerpts may be copied.
    Owning Repository: 
    American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA
    Country of Repository: 
    USA
    Location of Original/Copy: 
    Available at Sources for History of Modern Astrophysics libraries of deposit.
    Biography/History: 
    Died 1983
    Scope of Material: 
    Interview discusses, not in chronological order: early home life and schooling; undergraduate at Leiden, influence of Paul Ehrenfest, Jan H. Oort, Jacobus C. Kapteyn, Gerard Kuiper, Antonie Pannekoek, Ejnar Hertzsprung. Recollections of work of Georg Uhlenbeck and Samuel Goudsmit. Assistant to Peter van Rhijn at Groningen ca. 1928, work on various stellar and galactic topics. Move to Harvard, 1929, and atmosphere there under Harlow Shapley. Marriage to Priscilla Fairfield Bok; her contacts with William W. Campbell. Search for and interpretation of spiral auras of our galaxy; studies of stellar density distribution. Activities during World War II. Harvard astronomy group's difficult postwar transition; McCarthyism. Work on nebulae and globules. Comments on astronomy at Mt. Wilson, Tonantziutla, and South Africa. Origins of Harvard radio astronomy and National Radio Astronomy Observatory, and their funding. Move to Australia, 1956, and conditions there. Move to Steward Observatory of University of Arizona, 1964, and conditions there. Location of national observatory at Kitt Peak; management of Kitt Peak. Discussions of astronomy, education, popularization, employment, and organization. Also prominently mentioned are: Wilhelm Heinrich Walter Baade, McGeorge Bundy, Edwin F. Carpenter, Tom Cherry, James Bryant Conant, Arthur Stanley Eddington, Sergei Gaposchkin, Jesse Leonard Greenstein, Haro, David Heeschen, Ejnar Hertzsprung, James Jeans, Ivan Robert King, Bertil Lindblad, Antonia Maury, Nicholas Ulrich Mayall, Joseph McCarthy, Sidney McCuskey, Aden Meinel, Donald Howard Menzel, Robert Menzies, James E. Miller, Edward Arthur Milne, William Wilson Morgan, Edward Charles Pickering, Harry Hemley Plaskett, Nathan Pusey, Martin Schwarzschild, Willem de Sitter, Otto Struve; American Astronomical Society, Associated Universities for Research in Astronomy, Associated Universities, Inc., Boyden Observatory, Case Institute of Technology, Harvard College Observatory, Harvard Series on Astronomy, Indiana University, Mount Stromlo Observatory, National Science Foundation (U.S.), Ohio State University, Princeton University, Rijksuniversiteit te Groningen, Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden, University of Arizona, University of Illinois, University of Michigan, and University of Texas.
    Notes: 
    Advance notice of two business days required to use audio or video tapes.
    Interview conducted by David DeVorkin, 15, 17, 19 May and 14 June 1978.
    Interview conducted as part of the Sources for History of Modern Astrophysics (SHMA) project.
    Microfilmed, in part for the Sources for History of Modern Astrophysics project. Copies available at the American Institute of Physics and SHMA libraries of deposit.
    10" reel. Bethesda, Md. : Cutting Corp., 2001. 13 reels, 5/15/78 and 4 reels, 6/14/78. Original recording remastered onto 10" reels.
    Added Author: 
    DeVorkin, David H., 1944- interviewer.
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    Interviews.
    Sound recordings.
    Transcripts.
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